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31 March 2009

 

Former head of NTT Communications’ global services made president of Infinera Japan

Infinera Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, a vertically integrated manufacturer of digital optical network systems incorporating its own indium phosphide-based photonic integrated circuits (PICs), has appointed Satoshi Fujita as president of Infinera Japan, focused on expanding sales and marketing in Japan.

Fujita brings extensive experience in the Japanese telecoms industry, working for both service providers and system vendors.

Fujita spent 30 years at NTT (Japan’s incumbent telecom service provider and one of the world’s top five telecom carriers) including being head of NTT Communications’ global services business, which he grew from launch to a billion dollar business. Fujita was subsequently president of Lucent Technologies Japan and then president of Alcatel-Lucent Japan.

“Infinera has a great opportunity in the Japanese market, a market that is very open to innovation and new technologies such as Infinera’s unique photonic integration,” believes Fujita.

Infinera has several customers operating networks in Japan. Last year, Infinera and Global Access Limited (GAL) carried out the first publicly announced demonstration of 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) services over a live network in Japan, using Infinera’s 100 Gigabit Ethernet module to send 100GbE traffic over the GAL network.

“Infinera has achieved a leadership position in the North American long-haul optical networking market, and our goal is to reach similar positions in other important markets,” states CEO Jagdeep Singh. “With his experience, contacts, and knowledge of the challenges of building a service provider business as well as a systems vendor business, Satoshi Fujita will play a key role for Infinera in Japan,” he adds.

The Infinera DTN, the first optical system based on large-scale photonic integrated circuits, is a digital reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer (ROADM) for long-haul and metro core networks, combining high-capacity DWDM transport, integrated digital bandwidth management, and GMPLS-powered service intelligence in a single platform.

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